UNRAVELLING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DENISOVAN DNA TO THE PEOPLES OF OCEANIA

Harnessing pluripotent stem cells as models to decipher human evolution

Michael Dannemann, Irene Gallego Romero

2021-04-30

The study of human evolution, long constrained by a lack of experimental model systems, has been transformed by the emergence of t..

Denisovan introgression has shaped the immune system of present-day Papuans

Davide Vespasiani, Guy Jacobs, Laura Cook, Nicolas Brucato, Matthew Leavesley, Christopher Kinipi, Francois-Xavier Ricaut, Murray Cox, Irene Gallego Romero

2020-07-09

Modern humans have substantially admixed with multiple archaic hominins. Papuans, in particular, owe up to 5% of their genome to D..